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Synthesis and investigation of organofluorosilicate and organofluorogermanate species

Author(s): Jan Gnidovec (Author), Gašper Tavčar (Supervisor)

Year: 2025

Type: Doctoral dissertation

Fluorine, though abundant on Earth, is not readily available in a form suitable for organic synthesis. While fluoride salts like fluorite exist, they have limited reactivity due to solubility properties. Converting fluorite to hydrofluoric acid (HF) or fluorine gas (F2) increases reactivity but introduces significant safety concerns due to the …

Development of aerosolizator for disinfection of radiological devices and rooms using steriplant©n and assessment

Author(s): Robert Pintarič (Author), Metka Filipič (Supervisor), Jožef Matela (Co-Supervisor)

Year: 2025

Type: Doctoral dissertation

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a diagnostic method that is used for broad range of hospitalized patient, emergency patients, chemotherapy treated and as well the patients that may have infectious diseases. Because the examinations of different patients are usually performed with the same equipment in the same environment, the surfaces …

Representing and exploiting benchmarking data for optimisation and learning

Author(s): Ana Kostovska (Author), Panče Panov (Supervisor), Sašo Džeroski (Co-Supervisor), Tome Eftimov (Co-Supervisor)

Year: 2025

Type: Doctoral dissertation

The rapid advancements in Machine Learning (ML) and Black-Box Optimization (BBO) have led to an increased reliance on benchmarking data for evaluating and comparing algorithms across diverse domain tasks. However, the effective exploitation of this data is hindered by challenges such as syntactic variability, semantic ambiguity, and lack of standardization. …

Enhancing the performance of highly filled polymerbonded Nd-Fe-B magnets: Integrated advanced surface treatments and additive manufacturing

Author(s): Ana Damnjanović (Author), Ingrid Milošev (Supervisor), Nataša Kovačević (Co-Supervisor)

Year: 2025

Type: Doctoral dissertation

This doctoral dissertation present research aimed into enhancing polymer-bonded Nd–Fe–B magnets through innovative surface treatments and additive manufacturing techniques, focusing on improving their mechanical strength, magnetic characteristics, and environmental stability. This research is critical for broadening the applicability of these magnets in sectors like green technologies and motion control systems. …

Diagnosis and prognosis of solid oxide cell systems: a statistical approach

Author(s): Luka Žnidarič (Author), Đani Juričić (Supervisor)

Year: 2024

Type: Doctoral dissertation

Hydrogen is a promising energy carrier in the emerging green energy landscape. It is environmentally friendly, transportable, and storable. The Solid Oxide Cell (SOC) system is a complex technology that enables the bidirectional conversion of hydrogen to energy. The label SOC entails solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems, which produce …

Isotopic fingerprint of water from source to tap

Author(s): Klara Žagar (Author), Polona Vreča (Supervisor)

Year: 2024

Type: Doctoral dissertation

Rapid population growth and increasing water demand places a serious strain on both quantity and quality of available local water resources. Climate change puts additional pressure by altering the water balance, affecting recharge conditions, and contributing to pollution and water degradation. Addressing these issues requires water management strategies that enhance …

Explainable machine learning techniques for applications in life sciences

Author(s): Martin Marzidovšek (Author), Vid Podpečan (Supervisor), Patricija Mozetič (Co-Supervisor)

Year: 2024

Type: Doctoral dissertation

As ecological, agricultural, and biological disciplines face mounting challenges like biodiversity loss, food chain disruption, and climate change, leveraging machine learning (ML) to process complex and heterogeneous data becomes increasingly vital. This dissertation explores the potential of ML in combination with explainability approaches for enhancing research in life sciences, specifically …

Room-temperature fabrication of electroceramic composites

Author(s): Nina Kuzmić (Author), Srečo Davor Škapin (Supervisor), Matjaž Spreitzer (Co-Supervisor), Heli Jantunen (Co-Supervisor)

Year: 2024

Type: Doctoral dissertation

In the scope of this thesis, I focused on SrTiO3 (ST)-based dielectric ceramic composites as a lead-free perovskite material, which holds great potential for use in various electronic components. Such materials are large-scale and fabricated under high energy requirements, indicating an increasing need for a more environmentally friendly processing method. …

Neural approaches to automatic terminology extraction

Author(s): Hanh Thi Hong Tran (Author), Senja Pollak (Supervisor), Antoine Doucet (Co-Supervisor)

Year: 2024

Type: Doctoral dissertation

Automatic terminology extraction, also known as automatic term extraction (ATE), is a natural language processing (NLP) task that identifies specialized terminology from domain-specific corpora. ATE is often used for terminographic tasks (e.g., the creation of specialized dictionaries) and contributes to several complex downstream tasks (e.g., machine translation and information retrieval). …

ǂA ǂdecision-support system for the design of a green-hydrogen production system in a hydropower plant

Author(s): David Jure Jovan (Author), Gregor Dolanc (Supervisor)

Year: 2024

Type: Doctoral dissertation

This dissertation combines academic research and the application of its results to a real benchmark process. With the emerging electro-energetic systems that have a large share of renewable sources, hydrogen is becoming an important energy carrier that contributes to the storage and usage of surplus green energy and thus reduces …